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 40 Days for 40 Years - Lou Engle May 28-July 7, 2007



40 Days for 40 Years - Lou Engle

Calling America to 40 Days of Fasting and Prayer
May 28-July 7, 2007

There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments, key men, women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

The rebellious generation of the '60s seized its moment, and history crashed into the deep abyss of drug addiction, sexual immorality, hatred for authority and a rejection of the law of God. In 1967, there was a culminating and defining moment in that rebellion, when 100,000 young people, ages 15-25 flocked to San Francisco to experience the hippie movement. This mass convergence was sparked by the hit song, "San Francisco" (Wear a Flower in your Hair). Once there, these young adults experimented with LSD, pot, casual sex and Eastern mysticism in what became known as the "Summer of Love."

When these newly recruited 'Flower Children' returned home at the end of the summer, they brought with them new styles and ideas, flooding the cities of the US and Europe with a message that opposed authority and scorned conservative morals. This counterculture rebellion was fueled by music and art, which rapidly shifted global culture.

For 40 years, we have been falling headlong into a black moral morass in America along with the western world. We are reaping the waves of destruction in every sector of our post Christian society. Can America survive another 40 years? We are declaring "NO! A thousand times NO!" Unless a massive spiritual shift occurs at this moment, our children will live under an antichrist system and Godless enculturation that will bring about the demise of America, as we know it.

But God has a prescription for such a massive shift and it is revealed in the power of the great transitional 40-day fast. God, in His sovereign control over the parade of history, delivered the Israelites out of Egypt. Longing to release a moral code that would give foundations for righteousness, for time and eternity, God summoned Moses to a 40-day fast on Mount Sinai. Through this fast, all of history changed and the law of God was delivered from Heaven to Earth. Therefore, if America is going to return to God, it must recover that law again as its foundation for truth.

Elijah, at the height of Jezebel's cultic dominion over Israel fasted 40 days, broke the spell of Jezebel off of his own life and received a mandate to anoint the next generation. Elijah's fast unleashed a movement that toppled Jezebel's regime of hell, which perpetrated the destruction of family, the killing of innocent children, the silencing of the voice of God's people and the widespread culture of sexual immorality. The fruit of this fast culminated in the utter destruction of Baal worship in Israel.

Also in the fullness of time, the Glorious Gospel era was born when Jesus fasted 40 days and those who sat in darkness saw a great light. Clearly the 40-day fast is Heaven's great transitional prescription, moving nations from failure to fulfillment of promise. Is it any surprise that when Jesus was to enter into His great sacrifice-where death would be swallowed up in victory-Elijah and Moses appear with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration. All three were together as the 40-day fasters. They presided over the great transitions of history.

When the Israelites were poised to move into the Promise Land, spies were sent out for 40 days. When they returned carrying an evil report, a whole generation was infected with unbelief and they turned their back on the Promise Land. God's sentence on that generation was "And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness for forty years and bear the brunt of your infidelity until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know my rejection." (Numbers 14:33-34) It was 40 years of judgment for 40 days failure.

Conversely, the great prophet Ezekiel received a 40-day prayer assignment for a 40-year failure of Judah's iniquity. "Lie again on your right side, then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah, forty days I have laid on you a day for each year." (Ezekiel 4:6) It was clearly 40 days prayer for 40 years of failure.

When Jesus fasted 40 days and was tempted of the devil He quoted from the book of Deuteronomy saying "It is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." And again, "You shall not tempt the Lord thy God" and again, "You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you worship." Jesus, in His victory over Satan, was quoting the book of Deuteronomy, the portion of scripture delivered by Moses to the generation who failed in the desert. Jesus, in His 40-day fast, was clearly identifying with that passage of scripture and the generation that came out of Egypt. As an intercessor in His 40-day fast, Jesus was fulfilling what a generation had failed in for 40 years.

Forty years are up! Could the Church of America in a 40-day fast deliver a nation out of a 40-year curse? We have scriptural precedent to believe for such a turning! Therefore, we are trumpeting a call to 40 days of fasting like Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel and Jesus. We must bear the iniquity in 40 days of fasting and intercession for the past 40 years of divorcing God in America, embracing a culture of sexual immorality, hedonism, materialism, abortion and the rejection of Christ in public places. But we are also calling for 40 days of fasting and prayer for the greatest outbreak of Kingdom power, in signs and wonders, and the spiritual awakening in America that will collide with this present darkness and topple its cultural dominion over our people. Thousands went on 40-day fasts in 1946 and in 1947, the great healing revivals broke out. In 1948, the Latter Rain outpourings began, Bill Bright and Billy Graham's ministries were born, and Israel became a nation. Could it be that the 40-day fast preceded this explosion of power by the Spirit? After Jesus' 40-day fast, the scripture says He returned in the power of the Spirit. Yes the promise of Joel 2 is that after the fast, "I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh."

Forty years ago, in 1967, the Jesus Movement broke out. A youth revival started on the streets swept across the country, exploding on college campuses and coffee houses. People were being saved everywhere. Now 40 years later, we are crying out for God to do it again, way beyond the Jesus Movement!

In 1967, in a war and obviously by the supernatural hand of God, Jerusalem was taken and once again brought under the control of the state of Israel. This was a monumental signpost in the shifting of eras. The dispensation of the times of the Gentiles was now beginning to shift to the times when Jerusalem will become the last days focus for God's activity in the Earth. For 40 days, we are joining Israel in a 40-day fast crying out to God that Israel would see their Messiah and they would begin to receive their greatest spiritual awakening since the days of the Apostles.

Brothers and sisters, moments like these come only once in a lifetime. To miss such a moment could mean missing the purpose of God for a generation. The generation that refused to cross over the Jordan did not know that they had only one day to make the decision, and missing that day meant 40 years in the desert.

Even now we are receiving reports that other countries are calling 40-day fasts. Could we be in a Global 40-day season of fasting (like Jesus), to see a global outbreak of light when great darkness is covering the Earth? Beginning the evening of May 28, we are calling two generations to 40 days of fasting and prayer culminating on 7-7-07, the perfection of time. In a massive, national gathering of fasting, intercession, repentance and worship, we seek to declare our desire to remarry the Lord. We want to cross over into the promise land of national revival. We want to break this 40-year curse. May thousands seek God in water, juice and Daniel fasts from May 28 through 7-7-07, The Call in Nashville.

What would happen in America if for 40 days we sealed the electronic cultural sewer that flows nightly into our living rooms and instead, spent our strength seeking the Lord? What if tens of thousands of fathers and mothers across our nation fasted for 40 days repenting and cleansing themselves of inward toleration of sexual immorality, pornography, addiction to food, entertainment and materialism? What if they prayed daily for their spiritual and physical children to see them converted to Christ and freed from rebellion, from addictions, depression and suicide? What if the young generation fasted for 40 days to be cleansed from lust, media addiction and rebellion toward there parents, believing that a double portion of the Holy Spirit would come upon there lives?

Moses fasted 40 days and mentored a spiritual son named Joshua, which means the Lord saves. Elijah fasted 40 days and threw his mantle on a double portion son, Elisha, which means the Lord saves. Also, John the Baptist fasted in the desert and prepared the way for a double portion son named Jesus, which means the Lord saves. Jesus fasted 40 days and unleashed the apostolic glory of the eternal Son of God into the Earth. What if we are preparing a generation for the greatest day of salvation in history? And so, what if tens of thousands of both generations fast together and gather on 7-7-07 for The Call Nashville in LP Field, to cry out to God in a Joel 2 moment for great national returning to the Lord?

The parade of history has brought us into a profound generational landmark, and a great vacuum has opened again. If the church does not seize this moment, Muslims will! Antichrist rage will! Sexual perversion will! Anarchy will! But now is the time for key men and women, even an entire generation to risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point which determines which way the door will swing in America and in the nations of the Earth. It's 40 Days or 40 Years-seize the day!

We will be launching this fast with a worldwide simulcast on GOD TV on May 26, 2007. For all information on the 40-day fast and The Call Nashville please visit our websites.

www.fastandpray.com

www.thecall.com

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 2007/5/30 11:06Profile
narrowpath
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 Re: 40 Days for 40 Years - Lou Engle May 28-July 7, 2007

I believe in prayer and fasting and repentance.
I believe America is stooped in sin and the church is weak and feeble. I am sure that many sincere believers will attend this meeting to intercede for America.

However, my concern with this event is that it is hosted by people who promote dubious teachings such as Kingdom Dominion, Manifest Sons of God, Spiritual Warfare and related theology. Most of the promoters are featured on the Elijahlist.
Some people who are featured there are easy to discern as false prophets and others are more moderate but still have suble errors in their theology.
You can check discernment websites that go into great depth to point out the error of these theologies:

[url=http://www.thebereancall.org/]The Bereancall.org[/url]
or
[url=www.moriel.org]Moriel Ministries[/url]
and

[url=www.letusreason.org]Let us Reason[/url]

I am afraid that this event may get "hijacked" and instead promote a false concept of a triumphant church that will introduce "godly" government in this world. I have been to a number of similar meetings and only recently was able to discern what was really happening.
My main points of concern are
1)Triumphalism instead of real brokenness.
2)Spiritual warfare adressing angelic beings, that the bible does not endorse.
3) Promotion of Postmillenialism
4) Kingdom Dominionism - Trying to restore the world instead of "saving ourselves from a corrupt and adulterous generation"
5) Toronto Blessing related manifestations

I hope against hope that I am wrong with my concerns and there will be a instead a genuine spirit of brokeness. We live in difficult times where there is more counterfeit Christianity than true faith and I would like to alert all you of these possibilities. This calls for discernment.

In Brotherly Love
Narrowpath of London

 2007/5/30 18:43Profile
janny2006
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 Re:

I like to share what we do and will do in our church starting from 5/28/07 to 7/7/07.

we get up early in the morning, gather around 5: 30 Am. Then we prayed for 1 and half hours each morning.

we did not join any other groups ( even there are some differences between our theology ), we just pray to our Lord Jesus Christ. (THAT IS OUR DUTY- PRAYing)

I think pray, repent ,fasting are so important. If we do not agree with others theology , that is fine, we only need to do is to PRAY.

If we never do the fervent praying (continue praying), we will never see any good outcome for our nations.

Korean church is the best example. They pray so hard, it turn out to be harvest

God Bless

 2007/5/30 20:01Profile
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 Re: 40 Days for 40 Years - Lou Engle May 28-July 7, 2007

This article, 40 days for 40 years is a timely one. In fact, right now, we are in the middle of the time of 40 years onward from the six day war when the Jewish section of the house of Judah defeated the Egyptians and took over the city of Jerusalem. The period is a significant one.The six day war was from June 5-10 of 1967. We are now 40 years onward, 40 represtning trial or probation in scripture. There are cycles of blessing recorded in scripture and if we are to see again a cycle of blessing on our so called christian countries (British anglo saxon so to speak) we have to fulfil the criteria for the blessing. In Noah's day, 40 represented the number of days to be fulfilled for the cleansing of the earth from the defilement. The next judgement cannot be so great as God promised that he would never destroy all flesh again. the warnings appearing now are timely. Not only America but Australia also is heading for judgement and is in many ways in a far worse condition that the United States. It seems often that there is little we can do but wait upon God. Go back to Israel of old. Some of the mightiest miricles were wrought after times of Israels most sickening disobenience to God. He has it under control now and forever. The worst is yet to come as God will allow wickedness to reveal itself to the full so that the earth will see the utter depravity of humanity that abandoned its Creator. But there are signs of hope and blessing. The great revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries came at the time of the fulfillments of the seven times punishment on the House of Israel and the great missionary endeavours from Britain and America were launched. There is a time to laugh and a time to mourn. We must first go through the time of mourning before the blessing will come.


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